Explain how the progressive tax system is structured, how it currently operates in the U.S. today, and how it is related to economic inequality.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Progressive tax structures are designed so that the highest earners also pay the highest taxes.
2. Since the 1960s, top earners in the U.S. pay dramatically less in taxes than they once did.
3. The most affluent have resources to hire help in order to shield their high incomes and assets from taxation (e.g., off shore bank accounts, depreciating properties, etc.) in ways that members of lower social classes do not.
4. This trend has, overall, contributed to increases in economic inequalities in the U.S. since the 1960s.
Learning Objective: 3.2.3 Identify factors explaining why economic inequality in the United States has
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